Will Geoghegan

“The second misperception is that there is no interaction with the students,” he says. “You send it to the ether, and at the other end, the students send a report and rate it. People ask me: ‘Rate this?’ No, we have interaction with our students. We learn their names.

We talk with them through videoconferences or phone calls during office hours. The assumption that online teaching is stagnating is something we have tried to challenge. “

Geoghegan adds: “When people say that this is an easy concert, if you do a class online correctly, you have to dedicate time and effort.

 If the students are putting a lot of energy and commitment into the course, we must move forward. above. Your deliverables do not go through a black hole or are qualified by a TA. “

But there are clearly differences in the approach that a teacher should take to teach a subject online. Many online MBA programs are typically composed of three parts: Synchronous classes that require students and teachers to be online at the same time in live sessions.


KelleyDirect, for example, has a library of almost 300 videos, most of them five minutes long. There are also weekly live online classes, faculty office hours, Connect Weeks in person once a year on the IU Bloomington campus and in-person immersions worldwide and nationally.

In general, students take ten basic courses in the online program, each with between 20 and 30 videos. “They are carefully organized into playlists so that the concepts come together,” explains Williams.

“For the corporate strategy, there are a few minutes of video to explain the content and then the second video shows two MBA students interacting in a practice case that the online students would have read with the assigned questions.

Then there would be a follow-up video, immersing yourself in theory and frames. And then a video on how those frameworks can be applied to their own organizations. Each video has its own purpose. “

Adds Geoghegan: “We put everything that students can digest or consume asynchronously in those videos and then we leave the classes live to be as attractive and productive as possible.